Rain fixed LTE-A vs Mobile – Speed Test comparison
Rain has launched its mobile products in South Africa, offering users a flat rate of 5c per MB (R50 per GB).
The mobile products also include unlimited data for a certain number of days following their purchase, and the option to add on a 19-hour-per-day uncapped mobile usage bundle.
The launch of the mobile products follow the unveiling of Rain’s fixed LTE-A packages in 2017, which offer a fixed-line alternative for broadband users.
Speed tests
To see how Rain’s new mobile SIMs perform compared to its existing fixed LTE-A products, we conducted a series of speed tests.
A Rain Mobile SIM and a Rain fixed LTE-A SIM were each placed in a Huawei B618 router.
The routers were placed side-by-side and connected to a Windows 10 PC via an Ethernet cable, after which multiple speeds tests using MyBroadband’s web-based Speed Test page – accessed in Chrome – were conducted.
The tests were conducted on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and besides an initial discrepancy in speeds, the Rain Mobile SIM kept up with the Rain fixed LTE-A SIM – as shown below.
Midstream Estate – North
| Rain Fixed LTE-A SIM | ||
| Download (Mbps) | Upload (Mbps) | Latency (ms) |
| 33.70 | 7.40 | 19 |
| 33.42 | 8.04 | 19 |
| 22.35 | 7.80 | 20 |
| 28.01 | 7.46 | 18 |
| 31.34 | 7.02 | 19 |
| Rain Mobile SIM | ||
| Download (Mbps) | Upload (Mbps) | Latency (ms) |
| 21.41 | 7.50 | 20 |
| 22.64 | 7.79 | 19 |
| 21.19 | 7.80 | 19 |
| 20.57 | 7.43 | 18 |
| 20.58 | 7.80 | 19 |
Lonehill
| Rain Fixed LTE-A SIM | ||
| Download (Mbps) | Upload (Mbps) | Latency (ms) |
| 57.38 | 6.85 | 17 |
| 62.07 | 6.63 | 18 |
| 65.64 | 6.48 | 18 |
| 66.10 | 6.86 | 17 |
| 64.22 | 6.58 | 16 |
| Rain Mobile SIM | ||
| Download (Mbps) | Upload (Mbps) | Latency (ms) |
| 56.49 | 6.89 | 15 |
| 56.71 | 6.89 | 15 |
| 54.87 | 7.17 | 15 |
| 52.61 | 7.20 | 14 |
| 57.67 | 7.43 | 15 |
Midstream Estate – South
| Rain Fixed LTE-A SIM | ||
| Download (Mbps) | Upload (Mbps) | Latency (ms) |
| 29.47 | 8.98 | 19 |
| 29.37 | 8.88 | 18 |
| 27.72 | 8.92 | 18 |
| 29.07 | 8.88 | 19 |
| 30.08 | 9.15 | 19 |
| Rain Mobile SIM | ||
| Download (Mbps) | Upload (Mbps) | Latency (ms) |
| 29.03 | 8.90 | 19 |
| 26.28 | 8.95 | 19 |
| 25.59 | 9.00 | 19 |
| 28.02 | 8.95 | 19 |
| 27.91 | 8.88 | 18 |
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